Last winter was particularly brutal.
Even with helicopters airlifting emergency medical and food supplies, scores of Pamir Kyrgyz nomads died from illness and malnutrition.
Japarov is vowing to build new houses for all of them within the mountainous Chong-Alay district of Kyrgyzstan’s southwestern Osh region.
“The hardships of the Pamir Kyrgyz have been constantly disturbing my thoughts for a long time,” Japarov said on April 4. I have had the desire for them to be resettled in their historical homeland for a long time and now I mean to realize these intentions.”
“I will do this as soon as possible,” Japarov said. “This issue will be under my control. We do have financial resources and a plan about how and where they will be relocated. We will create good conditions for them.”
Pamir Kyrgyz Nomads On The Roof Of The World
April 29, 2021 16:15 GMT
Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019. His photographs intimately document their migrations and culture in an environment where temperatures, on average, rise above freezing for only two months a year.
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Pamir Kyrgyz children at their nomadic camp in Afghanistan’s Pamir Mountains. The boy’s back is pinned with talismans in the belief they will protect his health in a land with rare access to medical care.
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Fat-tailed sheep and goats, the livestock of Kyrgyz Pamir shepherds in northeastern Afghanistan’s remote Wakhan Corridor
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